On the threshold of celebrations dedicated to the six-year term since the official foundation of Heroes Portal (and seven years since the beginning of a former homepage heroes3maps.deeptown.com), we announce a new round of The Royal Game. Royal Games are offline tourneys for speed, where participants must play campaigns for the games of Heroes of Might and Magic series.
Results of the most tourneys of year 2006 had been summed up by now, and we are beggining to calculate the general results to reward the very best players of 2006. Results of all tourneys displayed in the Hall of Glory (except duels) will be taken into account, according to the decision of the Knights of the Round Table of 4th convocation in late 2005.
We hope to also reward the participants of Heroes Portal online tourneys for the first time. These results are now being prepared by the online tourney managers.
There are also major changes in the Heroes Portal team lineup. We'd like to tell you about the roles of each team member. There are 16 of us at the moment.
Administrative department and department of general development of Heroes Portal:
Sir Gorbik – Director, PR Manager, Manager of offline duels in all versions of Heroes of Might and Magic.
Sir Pool - Lead Programmer.
Sir Kirinyale Goldfire - Official Translator, Manager of the English part, Assistant Programmer. Also manages the "Wild Lands" offline tourney in Heroes Lands III.
Sir Zin - Lead Heraldist (assigns and censors the personal attributes of Heroes Portal visitors).
Sir Aethelfern - Manager of the Maps section.
Online tourney managers:
Sir Chekist - Manager of online tourneys (also temporary manages Heroes IV online tourneys). Head of the Online Guild.
Sir Maximix - Manager of Heroes II online tourneys.
Sir Ambassador - Manager of Heroes III online tourneys
Sir Skeleton Dark - Manager of Heroes V online tourneys
Offline tourney managers:
Lady Ennaxamoun - Manager of Heroes II offline tourneys.
Lady Lion Star - Manager of "Citadel of Heroes" and "Wild Lands" tourneys in Heroes Lands II.
Sir Edinorog Magic - Manager of Heroes III offline tourneys.
Sir Bisya - Manager of Heroes III offline tourneys.
Lady Ara - Manager of "Citadel of Heroes" and "Wild Lands" tourneys in Heroes Lands IV (also temporary manages other offline tourneys in Heroes Lands IV).
Lady Sombre - Manager of offline tourneys in Heroes Lands V.
Sir Fizik - Manager of offline tourneys in Heroes Lands V.
Soon we are going to update our About section. We are sorry for the temporary inconvenience. Please use information from above by now.
!!!Attention!!! Our team still needs a Designer living in Kiev (Ukraine) and a Manager for the Heroes IV offline tourneys.
We invite you to take part in the new polls! On our site, you'll find a poll "Which Heroes V campaign you like best?". There are also several other polls about the upcoming game "Heroes of Malgrimia II: Necromancers Invasion".
Today we updated our section "Maps" first time in 2007. We hope you'll continue sending us your best maps this year too:)
The list of works posted: Wizards (H2-M); Armour of God, Defense of the Grove (H3SD-S); Elven Forest, Inner Flame, Knights of the Time, Once in Deyja, Magic Circle, Under Siege (H3SD-M); Inquisition Chronicles Part II, HeroesLands - Clan War II, Random Map (H3SD-L); 007 Chases Dr. No, Another War, Battle for Earth, Middle Earth - 2006, Silver Lynx - Alpha, VGT-2006 Stormbringer (H3SD-XL); Order, Duty and Love 1.1(H3SD-C); Swamp Tentacles (H3WG-M); Judgement Day, Escape, Battle for Middle Earth II (H3WG-L); DeathClaw (H3WG-XL); Four Squares (H4WW-M); About DF, God vs. Evil, Mesopotamia (H4WW-L); Fury of the Elements, Into the Tundra, Tale of Selentia (H5-S); Ruins in the Desert (H5-M); Islands of Wonder (H5-L); Isles of Terra 1.1, To End All Hate (H5-XL).
Let the New Year begin with updates! Today we've updated the Heroes Lands IV feud maps of continents Life and Order. Also updated is the Heroes Lands 2 World Map, kindly provided by Sir Werky.
Changes have been made to the Market of Special Artifacts. Gold, Silver and Bronze Sands of Time may now be used only in the Common (Main) Tourneys. Their descriptions have been changed accordingly, namely by substituting the phrase "They can be used in any tourney but only one artifact in a tourney" with a new one: "They can be used only in the Main (Common) tourney, one artifact
per tourney". This amendment have been initiated by the Knights of the Round Table of the Sixth Convocation.
!!!Attention!!! A discussion of a tourney on Heroes of Might and Magic V: Lords of the North between russian-speaking Internet communities have started today.
We congratulate you on the upcoming new year 2007 and wish it to bring you happiness and success!
Nival has prepared a present for you. It is a new map for Heroes of Might And Magic V: Lords of the North.
So, now our Tavern has its Xmas tree lit with bright lights, and that means the Christmas holidays are near. Meanwhile, we are preparing presents for you. Holidays are always a good occasion to make presents, so we decided to announce a special New Year action for your pleasure. In period from December 24 till January 24, our exchange rate is 200 @ for 1 USD, which means that if you transfer money to us via one of the systems (does not apply to the SMS system), you'll get twice as much arroba s usually, also helping us to support the HeroesPortal and the future prize tourneys in the upcoming new year.
And the first unformal meeting of Heroes Portal citizens in 2007 will be on January 6, near the Opera Theatre in Lvov (Ukraine) at 13:00. Please inform us of any Heroes Portal meetings in your towns by telling about them in our Tavern. For the game is only a reason, and friendship is the goal! :) Until we meet!
We also remind that our team still needs a designer living in Kiev (Ukraine) and offline tourney managers for Heroes IV and Heroes V.
Attention players! Final saves for current Main, Trade Guild and Landless tourneys must be re-sent to [email protected] Tourney deadlines will not be changed. New final saves will also be accepted at [email protected]. Sorry for the inconveniences.
Today we've opened a new table in our English Tavern, dedicated to the
game Heroes of Malgrimia II: Necromancers Invasion.
Also, we've made changes in the Duel Rules of our Portal. We are still waiting for propositions about online duels from our Online Guild.
Changes have been made in the Clans section. Sir Deep Mike has became a King and thus left the Successors of Anduran clan. He was substituted for Lady Saint Ishtar. Also, The Fallen clan has been dismissed due to one of its members being blocked.
Feud maps of Heroes Lands 2 have been updated, namely the following continents:
Sorceress, Necromancer, Knight, Wizard è Warlock.
Political situation on the Barbarian continent has not changed after the last tourney round.
Sir Vadim99 have left the HeroesPortal team today. He was the offline tourney manager in Heroes IV. Tourneys in this game version will be prolonged for uncertain period of time. We will ask you to re-send your saves of the current tourneys to the new manager after he/she is chosen.
!!!Attention!!! Our team still needs a designer living in Kiev (Ukraine), as well as offline tourney managers for HoMM4 and HoMM5.
It's great to know for all the fans of HoMM-like turn-based strategy games, that the «Age of Heroes III» game has been released for mobile phones. Also, the site of Heroes of Malgrimia II: Invasion of the Necromancers has published some new info about buildings in the game. You can also read an interview dedicated to this game at IgroNews.
And don't forget to read the news from Heroic World on our Portal. ;-)
Our School of Skill have been updated by three new lessons (unfortunately, only in Russian for now) from Sirs Zlatovlas (HMM3), Leosan (HMM2) and VDV forever (HMM3). We hope that they will be useful, and await for the new lessons from you! Authors have been rewarded by 1000@ for each lesson.
Heroes Lands 3 feud maps for continents Inferno and Tower have been updated today.
The Shadow Guards clan has been dismissed, as one of its members have acquired the King's title and no substitution has been made by the clan leader.
We remind you that our team needs a designer living in Kiev. Also we announce a vacancy for one more tourney manager in Heroes Lands 5. A candidate should be ready to download huge save files and manage the Common Tourneys.
Today we updated our section "Maps" again, but, unfortunately, this month we received much less good works, so we have just twenty decent maps this time: Ìàze (H2-S); Avalanche (H2-M); Flood War (H2-L); Coma (H2-XL); Revenge, Successor to the Throne (H3SD-S); Find Grail, Odin Odyssey (H3SD-M); Happy Island, Island of the Moon, Return home, Rule by heritage (H3SD-L); Argoban, Dragon Belt, Middle Earth (H3SD-XL); The Dying Earth (H3WG-S); Egmont's Quest, Land of War and Peace, Simple World (H4WW-M); DotA Heroes (H4WW-L).
Heroes Lands 2 feud maps have been updated today, namely the following continents:
Barbarian, Sorceress, Necromancer, Knight, Wizard è Warlock.
Also updated are Heroes Lands 3 feud maps for continents Rampart, Fortress, Castle.
Please wait for all the images to load when opening the pages.
We await your duel challenges in these lands!
If you find any mistakes on the feud maps, please tell Sir Gorbik about them.
Today we've opened a new table in our Tavern, dedicated to the game "Heroes of Malgrimia II: Invasion of the Necromancers", which will be released in February 2007. We plan to create a new maps section at our Portal for the custom maps for this game, and to launch regular tourneys on it. This game is well-worth of respect of many fans of the fantasy turn-based strategies, following the best traditions of the classic Heroes of Might and Magic. Moreover, the game developers team includes one of the creators of King's Bounty II. For now, we invite you to discuss your opinions on the future tourneys, reward sums for the mapmakers etc.
Also, our School of Skill has been updated today with a new lesson (Russian only for now) by Sir Bakster, who describes his walkthrough of the Trade Guild Tourney on the "Castle Grozny" map in Heroes of Might and Magic III: Shadows of Death. Author of this lesson has been rewarded by 1000@. We remind that if you also provide your lessons in English, your reward will be tripled!
We also invite you to take a look at the page which shows all current offline tourneys. Many of these tourneys have just opened, so maybe you should give them a try. :) You may also learn about the current online tourneys here.
Today the following changes occured in our team:
Unfortunately, Sir Drago Wolter has left his work as the assistant programmer. Now his former duties (updating of the Treasury, School of Skill, Library, Events and some other sections) will be fulfilled by Sir Kirinyale Goldfire. To assist the latter in checking and assigning your attributes, our team has been extended by Sir Zin, whom we congratulate on this occasion.
Sir Logan Pathfinder has officially left the HeroesPortal team.
Also, the Online Guild under the direction of Sir Ñhekist is preparing its candidates for joining our team. When a decision is made, the About Us page will be updated.
!!!ATTENTION!!! Our team needs a designer. Send your propositions to Sir Gorbik. It is highly desirable for the designer to live in Kiev (Ukraine).
